On April 30. 2013, we had a sever storm warning in Lubbock. There was no projection, earlier in the day, that we would have a storm in Lubbock, although there was a projection for very high winds, and later in the week, we would have freezing weather, and possible precipitation.
Mid-afternoon on April 30,2013, I was walking west in our building at work, and I saw the front moving in: In West Texas, this is easy: the clouds form a line of demarcation. Neither the National Weather Service, http://www.weather.gov/ nor The Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Lubbock+TX+79413?from=hp_promolocator&lswe=79413&lwsa=Weather36HourInterstateCommand predicted this weather event. But I suspected there would be a storm: the clouds were dense and moving quickly.
At about 5 PM, the weather hit: some rain, strong winds, thunder, lightning that caused a grass fire, some updrafts. But, all in all, no serious weather. The worst of the storm was the winds, which caused downed power lines.
The electric service to my house was interrupted momentarily in the early evening. I had the TVs on, and the laptop computer was running. The cable service was not interrupted, and all I had to do for the TVs was to restart them, and change the channel and volume.
But, when I tried to reset the Internet service, the usual resetting of the modem and router did not work. However, the router has a reset button, and engaging that button did the trick.
I am so glad that I can reset the wireless network in my house, by the various means I have learned over the years.
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